Rooster, Hen, and Chicks

Nagasawa Rosetsu 長澤蘆雪 Japanese
 Calligrapher Minagawa Kien　皆川淇園 Japanese

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The rooster, representative of the patriarchal head of the family—per the Confucian ideal—was a popular subject in Chinese and Japanese painting of the premodern era. Here, the birds are silhouetted in negative white against a background of gray ink wash. Together with Itō Jakuchū (1716–1800) and Soga Shōhaku (1730–1781), Rosetsu was known as one of the “Three Eccentrics” (san kijin) of eighteenth-century Kyoto. He studied with Maruyama Ōkyo (1733–1795), founder of Kyoto’s Maruyama school.

Rooster, Hen, and Chicks, Nagasawa Rosetsu 長澤蘆雪 (Japanese, 1754–1799), Hanging scroll; ink on paper, Japan

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Rooster, Hen, and Chicks, Nagasawa Rosetsu 長澤蘆雪 (Japanese, 1754–1799), Hanging scroll; ink on paper, Japan
Rooster, Hen, and Chicks, Nagasawa Rosetsu 長澤蘆雪 (Japanese, 1754–1799), Hanging scroll; ink on paper, Japan
Rooster, Hen, and Chicks, Nagasawa Rosetsu 長澤蘆雪 (Japanese, 1754–1799), Hanging scroll; ink on paper, Japan

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